Patents by Inventor Scott Skorupa

Scott Skorupa has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Generating meeting requests and group scheduling from a mobile device
    Patent number: 6370566
    Abstract: The present invention includes a mobile device which provides the user with the ability to schedule a meeting request from the mobile device itself. The mobile device creates an object representative of the meeting request and assigns the object a global identification number which uniquely identifies the object to other devices which encounter the object. In addition, the mobile device in accordance with one aspect of the present invention provides a property in the object which is indicative of whether the meeting request has already been transmitted. In this way, other devices which encounter the meeting request are capable of identifying it as a unique meeting request, and of determining whether the meeting request has already been transmitted, in order to alleviate the problem of duplicate meeting request transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony Discolo, Scott Skorupa, Salim Alam, Garrett R. Vargas, Dave Whitney, Bryce Ulrich, John I. Ferrell
  • GENERATING MEETING REQUESTS AND GROUP SCHEDULING FROM A MOBILE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20010054072
    Abstract: The present invention includes a mobile device which provides the user with the ability to schedule a meeting request from the mobile device itself. The mobile device creates an object representative of the meeting request and assigns the object a global identification number which uniquely identifies the object to other devices which encounter the object. In addition, the mobile device in accordance with one aspect of the present invention provides a property in the object which is indicative of whether the meeting request has already been transmitted. In this way, other devices which encounter the meeting request are capable of identifying it as a unique meeting request, and of determining whether the meeting request has already been transmitted, in order to alleviate the problem of duplicate meeting request transmissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 1998
    Publication date: December 20, 2001
    Inventors: ANTHONY DISCOLO, SCOTT SKORUPA, SALIM ALAM, GARRETT R. VARGAS, DAVE WHITNEY, BRYCE ULRICH, JOHN I FERRELL
  • System and method of displaying times corresponding to events on a calendar
    Patent number: 6266295
    Abstract: A system and method provide an event display. The event display includes a visual indication of a day on which the event occurs. The event display also includes an analog clock face representation having a contrasting portion indicating a time of the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kathryn L. Parker, Michael McDevitt, Greg Keyser, Scott A. Skorupa
  • Mobile device having notification database in which only those notifications that are to be presented in a limited predetermined time period
    Patent number: 6208996
    Abstract: A system is provided for maintaining a notification database in a mobile device. A notification scheduling program is run at a predetermined time. The notification scheduling program is configured to obtain information indicative of a plurality of notifications to be presented in the future. The notifications which are to be presented within a predetermined time period are entered in the notification database. The notification scheduling program is scheduled to run in response to expiration of the predetermined time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ido Ben-Shachar, Scott A. Skorupa, Garrett R. Vargas, John I. Ferrell